theintercept.com

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theintercept.com is ranked #6,675 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 50 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Oct 1, 2009, 17 years ago, through Gandi SAS, and is paid up until Oct 1, 2027. Its homepage uses WordPress and Google Tag Manager. It is served by Nginx.

Global rank

#6,675

▲ 20 this week

Domain age

17 years

since Oct 1, 2009

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

93/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#6,675 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #6,178.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where theintercept.com sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Oct 1, 2009 (17 years ago)
Expires: Oct 1, 2027
Registrar: Gandi SAS
Name servers: dora.ns.cloudflare.com, lamar.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC: Signed

From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 7, 2026.

Technology stack

CMS & site builders

WordPress

Analytics

Google Tag Manager

Web servers

Nginx

Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.

Homepage SEO check

Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.

93/100

https://theintercept.com/

The Intercept

Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.

20 passed · 3 warnings · 0 failed

Content

!Title13 characters — aim for 15–65
✓Meta description69 characters
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings14 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 36 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 879 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://theintercept.com/
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen-US
✓Structured dataWebPage, BreadcrumbList, WebSite

Social sharing

!Open Graph2 of 3 key tags set
✓Twitter / X cardsummary_large_image

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
✓FaviconFound
✓Character encodingUTF-8

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
!Content-Security-PolicyNot set
✓Clickjacking protectionSet
✓X-Content-Type-OptionsSet
✓Referrer-PolicySet

Server response

Final URL: https://theintercept.com/
HTTP status: 200
Server: nginx
Response time: 19 ms (first byte 10 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 145 KB
Compression: br

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Sites ranked near theintercept.com

Rank	Website	Registered	Built with
#6,670	mijia.tech	2016	—
#6,671	uni-stuttgart.de	—	Varnish, Matomo, Bootstrap
#6,672	dpreview.com	1999	WordPress, Cloudflare, Google Tag Manager
#6,673	travian.com	2002	Nginx, reCAPTCHA
#6,674	swiggy.com	2013	Amazon CloudFront
#6,676	maersk.com	1995	—
#6,677	deepmind.google	2023	Google Tag Manager, Google Fonts
#6,678	kurir.rs	—	Nuxt, Vue.js, Varnish
#6,679	chunichi.co.jp	—	Apache, jQuery, Google Tag Manager
#6,680	money.pl	2001	Nginx

Questions about theintercept.com

How popular is theintercept.com?

theintercept.com is #6,675 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is theintercept.com?

theintercept.com was registered on Oct 1, 2009, which makes the domain 17 years old.

What is theintercept.com built with?

We detected WordPress, Google Tag Manager and Nginx on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of theintercept.com?

Gandi SAS, according to the registry's RDAP record.